Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/laurabaʀi

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From *laur (“laurel tree”) +‎ *baʀi (“berry”).^[1]

Noun

*laurabaʀi n

laurel berry

Inflection

Neuter ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*laurabaʀi
Genitive	*laurabaʀjas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*laurabaʀi	*laurabaʀju
Accusative	*laurabaʀi	*laurabaʀju
Genitive	*laurabaʀjas	*laurabaʀjō
Dative	*laurabaʀjē	*laurabaʀjum
Instrumental	*laurabaʀju	*laurabaʀjum

Descendants

Old English: laurberiġe, laurberie, laurberiġie
- Middle English: laurberiʒie, lawerberie
Old Saxon: *lōrberi, *laurberi
- Middle Low German: lôrbêre, lörbêre, lôrebêre, lorrebêre, laurbêr, lawerbêre, lawerbêse
  - German Low German:
    Mecklenburgisch: Luurbeer
    
    Low Prussian: Loorbeer
    
    Westphalian:
    Westmünsterländisch: Loorbeer
    - → North Frisian: loorbeer
  - → Danish: laurbær
    - → Faroese: lavrber
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: laurbær
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: laurbær
  - → Old Swedish: lagherbær, laverbær
    - Swedish: lagerbär
Old High German: lōrberi, lōrber
- Middle High German: lōrber, lōrbere
  - German: Lorbeer
  - Luxembourgish: Lorber
  - → Estonian: loorber

References

^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Lorbeer”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 448

[1] Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Lorbeer”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 448

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